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Minor Characters ([personal profile] alicornucopia) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2015-02-06 04:18 pm

exploratory kidnapping

In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.

In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)
missnicegirl: Looking up from a book. (η and your point is...?)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure. And it might be hard to tell without clear measurements."
missnicegirl: Smiling or smirking. (γ c'mere spoon!)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's convenient!"

The dots representing active ialdae output are yellow, and the oldest spots are blue, and the background fog is a uniform medium green.

"Hmm, it does look like there's something going on with the background."
missnicegirl: Looking up from a book. (η and your point is...?)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Or some combination of the two? Well, can we make the map show the past?"
missnicegirl: Gazing intently at a Cheerio from close range. (κ concentrating)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The background fog, it turns out, sprang into existence - well, achieved its current density over the course of a few degrees - when someone, presumably Matilda, had just begun spewing enormous amounts of ialdae all over the bottom of the world opposite Paraasilan. But its current age-colour would suggest it's younger than that, so apparently it is also a mix.
missnicegirl: Sitting outside, reading a book. (ι under a tree)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wonder why the background stuff behaves so differently?"
missnicegirl: Looking up from a book. (η and your point is...?)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure. I'm also not sure how... big the background fog is. It's the same everywhere on the map, but the map is only as big as this planet."
missnicegirl: Smiling or smirking. (γ c'mere spoon!)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The moon has the same background fog as the planet, but no hotspots.

"Is that the moon?"
missnicegirl: Looking up from a book. (η and your point is...?)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It has background fog too.

"Is the background fog just everywhere? If that's the case, it's the opposite of lossy..."
missnicegirl: Walking down the lane towing a wagon of books. (θ back from the library)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It has background fog.

"So the background is either infinite or really really really big."
missnicegirl: Sitting outside, reading a book. (ι under a tree)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe it did. That would sort of explain it."
missnicegirl: Looking up from a book. (η and your point is...?)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure we are picking up the background fog, it's sort of hard to tell when it's so uniform. But those are all very good questions."

She looks over at the wards. Kaylo's is glowing merrily. Hers is still only visible to magic-sight.

"Which questions do we need to answer to make sure our wards work, though?"
missnicegirl: Walking down the lane towing a wagon of books. (θ back from the library)

[personal profile] missnicegirl 2015-03-26 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, if the wards are big enough to cover the whole country, we might be able to make them pick up spills from inside their active area and prevent anyone else from doing that and then people outside Esmaar wouldn't be able to interrupt our supply by building their own recyclers, and there are plenty of ialdic dragons living in Esmaar right now... And if it wasn't getting enough power, anyone with high output could sit inside it somewhere and deliberately spill power at it."
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